Sat, Jan 13, 1973
John and Roy are breaking in a new trainee who lacks self-confidence in tight situations, including assisting an elderly man who was injured by a falling bookcase, an ambulance broadsided by a car, a boy injured in a chemistry lab accident at his home, a sleeping man with a "snake" on his chest, and a man injured and trapped in a junkyard. A man says to Dixie that a baseball player's wife was separated from him, and Dix asks them to find her. Dixie talks to the wife, whose husband is suffering from brain hemorrhage that was caused when he was beaned in a game while not wearing a batting helmet.
Sat, Feb 3, 1973
A professor working with the Secret Service is experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia and Dr. Brackett resents the interference of the government agents in the professor's care, where the professor's wife talks to Dixie, whose husband was brought over to the hospital, for a physical examination. Roy has an admirer calling him everywhere, despite Johnny saying to both Dixie and Dr. Early, his partner has no "charisma", and needles him relentlessly about it. Between the phone calls, the firemen assist a plane crash victim, deliver a premature baby, and help prevent a suicidal man from jumping off a building under construction.
Sat, Feb 10, 1973
Roy complains of a "tickle" in his throat, which John suspects is tonsillitis. A famous actor, and former flame of Dixie's, is admitted to Rampart with chest pain (later suspected to be related to excessive MSG consumption), while his producer clamors for him to be released to finish filming his TV show. Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Boot the Dog has surgery to remove a tick. The firemen assist two kids stuck on top of a natural gas tank, several girls injured in a rough lacrosse game, and a fire at Olive View Hospital (damaged in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake) set by an arsonist that trapped four people & results in Chet being injured and taken to the hospital. Chet ends up being roomed with Roy, who has his tonsils removed.
Sat, Feb 17, 1973
A white lie causes a gas explosion, leading Johnny to desire only the honest truth. At Rampart, Doctors Early and Morton are trying to save a boy, who's choking to death. In a hysterical scene, Dixie and Johnny calm the boy's mother. In the field, Johnny and Roy rescue a teenage boy injured in a dive off a roof, and a baby and his blind grandfather trapped in a burning house. At the hospital, Dixie and Dr. Early treat a man who believes he is going to have a heart attack.
Sat, Feb 24, 1973
A woman attends a seance for her recently deceased sister and suffers a seizure, after which she constantly calls the Squad because she's convinced the bad things happening after that were a result of her sister. Dr. Brackett and Dixie treat a young man who took unprescribed tranquilizers, while the firemen rescue a man pinned under a load of cartons and a driver trapped underwater in his car.
Sat, Mar 3, 1973
Boot the Dog isn't eating and the firemen are concerned, even consulting with Rampart's staff about their mascot's health. The cause turns out to be Chet yelling at Boot. The Squad treats a woman who got her hair caught in a mixer, her hand stuck in a bowl, and catches her stove on fire while making dinner. Also, there's a woman trapped in her car under a gas truck, and an explosion at a Rampart Hospital lab endangers the workers and important records stored there. The doctors treat an unconscious man suffering from internal bleeding caused by taking aspirin with Coumadin, and a man who is suffering from a curse.
Sat, Apr 7, 1973
John is worried about a pending IRS audit. The paramedics attempt to help a man hit on the head, but he refuses their assistance and demands to see a doctor. He later turns out to be a professional medical con man. When the patient disappears, Dr. Brackett tells Dixie, but she didn't move him. John and Roy get a baby out of a hot and locked car, then encounter an angry mother upset at their interference. A pregnant hippie woman is having trouble breathing and is brought into Rampart, where Dr. Brackett and Dixie finds she has a damaged heart valve from past untreated rheumatic fever. The firemen save a man trapped in a collapsed building under construction, but, before that, the man wants Roy to amputate his leg before the rest of the building falls on him.
Sat, Oct 6, 1973
John discovers he's going to be a father... to kittens... when a pregnant stray cat appears on his bed, and Boot the Dog is not happy about the cat being there. The paramedics rescue a family involved in a plane crash; the father dies, the mother and young daughter are injured, and a grizzled junk dealer who got his foot stuck in a bear trap. A stage actress is suffering from tachycardia after getting a bad review of her performance, where Dr. Brackett takes care of her, while Dixie talks to the husband. The firemen assist a child sickened by a gas leak at a school and rescue a man involved in a boating accident.
Sat, Oct 13, 1973
A paramedic from England rides with Roy & John to observe the paramedic program at work, and is present during a fire caused by a molotov cocktail thrown at a policeman, helping a wild-west performer with an injured finger, a traffic accident involving a car loaded with marijuana, and a man trapped in a construction site; during the rescue John nearly falls off a scaffold and the visitor saves his life. A rock singer, who is brought into the ER in a diabetic coma complicated by pneumonia, and her manager is more concerned with the money lost than her well being, complicated by a nurse with a bad attitude impacting the patients, as well as Dixie and Dr. Early.
Sat, Oct 20, 1973
Johnny injures his shoulder during a rescue of a pregnant woman in labor. When the baby's born with a cleft palate, she's determined to give him up for adoption, until Dixie and Dr. Brackett speak with her. Dr. Morton reads Johnny the riot act about his physical condition, which starts the paramedic on a fitness regimen. Dr. Early treats the son of a drug-addicted mother who suffered an electric shock putting a screwdriver into a TV. The paramedics treat a stabbing victim and the man he shot; then the police have to talk the son out of shooting the man who shot his father. Johnny & Roy rescue a hang glider pilot stuck in a tree.
Sat, Nov 10, 1973
John is suffering from insomnia due to the lack of night runs, but during their day runs the firemen respond to an accident aboard a boat where a butane tank exploded en route to the marina. Dixie, Drs. Brackett & Early treat a boy who suffered a skull fracture when his father swerved to avoid a dog in the road, then a home-grown marijuana smoker who is dying from an unknown ailment until his friend reveals his plants was grown with parathion). Later the firemen rescue a worker pinned under a semi truck at the loading dock and a man and boy who fell into a gravel pit.
Sat, Nov 17, 1973
A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A stockbroker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated. An elderly woman that Roy and John treated the previous year dies and remembers them in her will. Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys. A teenager loses a hamburger eating contest. The paramedics treat a burn victim at an explosive structure fire.
Sat, Nov 24, 1973
Johnny and Roy are guests on a local talk show about their job, and Dixie saw Johnny on the television interview & she noted that he appeared to suffer from stage fright where Roy had to "fill in the blanks." The paramedics check on a woman who screams for therapeutic reasons at a construction site, then rescue a boy who attempts suicide by jumping off a ledge. After being brought in, Drs. Brackett and Early suspect his mother has been abusing him, while Dixie offers the boy chocolate milk & protects him at the same time. Back in the field, the paramedics assist a teenager whose hand was stuck in a doughnut machine, and they rescue a boy trapped in a fire.
Sat, Dec 1, 1973
The paramedics find a mechanic in a catatonic state while responding to a vehicle fire at a garage, and the Rampart doctors are unable to determine the cause of his condition. Roy & John lecture a frequent caller on the dangers of constantly calling them because she's lonely, then respond to a woman who mixed ammonia with bleach and inhaled poisonous chloramine vapor. Paula Slayton returns to give John a Yorkie pup, keeping a promise made to him for caring for her dog while she was hospitalized; Boot and the pup engage in a wild chase around the fire station, resulting in Captain Stanley deciding the station can only have one mascot. Dr. Brackett asks for lab reports, when the lab is busy, and he has a violent temper when they aren't ready for him. The firemen assist an elderly couple trapped in their home...by tumbleweeds. The catatonic patient receives an injection from his friend, and he responds...by jumping out a window onto a ledge, nearly kicking Roy off into the parking lot until he is tranquilized.
Sat, Dec 8, 1973
John's current girlfriend misinterprets a discussion about a wedding proposal. The firemen assist a pilot of a crop-duster spraying parathion that crashed and punctured his lung, poisoning a bystander with the pesticide. An injured boy using a walker wants to use crutches instead. A man gets treated for an ear infection caused by mothballs, and Drs. Brackett, Early & Morton unanimously agree the man doesn't need a hospital stay. The paramedics treat a couple who overdosed on daffodil bulbs mixed with alcohol, a weekend cowboy who fell off a horse who refused treatment until he collapsed again with a possible skull fracture, a traffic accident on U.S. Route 101 that results in two victims starting a relationship, and the lead singer of a rock band in cardiac arrest due to drugs.
Top-rated
Sat, Dec 15, 1973
John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.
Sat, Dec 22, 1973
John gets a credit card bill for $842 (should have been $8.42) after taking a girl on a date, and the station (and Dixie) hear all about it. The firemen rescue a young couple from a traffic accident; the boy has a spinal cord injury and the girl may be pregnant and Dr. Early is reluctant to take x-rays until her condition is determined. Later the paramedics help a woman that fell into an old well, a magician trapped in a safe, and a man trapped in an junkyard fire that turns explosive when stored ammunition starts going off.